Eveline from Maydell

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Eveline from Maydell

Eveline Adelheid Freifrau von Maydell (née Frank ; born May 18, 1890 in Tehran ; † December 24, 1962 in Sintra ) was a German silhouette artist.

Life

Eveline Frank was the daughter of the orientalist and diplomat Hermann Frank (1852–1916) and his German-Baltic wife Auguste, née. von Brandt on Kailes near Pernau (Estonian Kaelase, rural community Halinga ). She was born in Tehran because her father was working as a dragoman at the embassy of the German Empire at the Persian court at the time; later the family lived in Beirut and Constantinople . In 1900 the family moved to Pernau . The house with Frank's oriental collection was destroyed in the First World War. From 1908 to 1912 she was a student at the art schools in Riga , here with Gerhard von Rosen , and St. Petersburg , here with Iwan Jakowlewitsch Bilibin . Then she was a student of Willy Spatz at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

In 1914 she married the Baltic German entomologist Guido Nikolai Georg von Maydell (1876–1934), a grandson of Friedrich Ludwig von Maydell . The couple initially lived in Olkusz in Congress Poland , where von Maydell worked as an estate manager for a factory. In 1918 the couple moved to the Frank family estate in Wikoline in the Silesian district of Guhrau and to a country house in Schreiberhau . During this time, portrait silhouette cuttings by Wilhelm Furtwängler , Thomas Mann and Gerhart Hauptmann were created .

Eveline von Maydell in front of her works in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1925

As a result of economic difficulties and the uncertain situation in Upper Silesia , she went to the USA in November 1922, initially alone, and relocated her main activity to New York . Here she quickly became successful, especially with portraits. So her husband was able to follow and found a job at the American Museum of Natural History . The couple purchased and built a home in Wilton, Connecticut . She created those of US President Calvin Coolidge on important portrait silhouettes . Her work has been exhibited repeatedly at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

After Guido von Maydell's death in 1934, she temporarily returned to Estonia in 1935 to deal with inheritance matters and to have his urn buried in Tallinn Cathedral . An exhibition in Tallinn showed her works in Estonia for the first time. She decided to stay in Estonia and had the furniture, books and her own works stored in Schreiberhau brought to Tallinn in 1939. Then came the Second World War . Meanwhile (since 1934) a US citizen, she left Estonia shortly before the Soviet occupation during the evacuation of US citizens in August 1940 and came via the Arctic port of Petsamo, Finland (now Petschenga , Russia) with the USS American Legion (APA-17 ) back to New York.

Approx. She left a thousand paper cutouts, family papers, photos, furniture and her library as a deposit in the Estonian Art Museum. From there, the paper cuts, documents and photos were transferred to the Estonian State Archives in 1946.

She continued to create paper cuttings, even if the demand and success were no longer the same as in the interwar period , and with them she designed programs for the Metropolitan Opera, among other things . In 1942 it was exhibited in Milwaukee . In the early 1950s she sold her house in Wilton and moved to Portugal. After a successful sales exhibition of her works, she was able to set up an apartment with a studio in an old palacio in Sintra. The last years of her life were marked by illness.

After her death, further parts of the estate came to southern Germany and to the Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft .

In 2014, the Estonian State Archives and Estonian Art Museum are holding an exhibition on life (exhibition space in the State Archives) and work (in Kadriorg Palace ).

She made the silhouettes of Mrs. WK DuPont (Ethel Fleet Hallock DuPont the wife of William Kemble DuPont), Princess Miguel Braganza with Her Children (children of Michael von Braganza and his wife), Mrs. Calvin Coolidce ( Grace Coolidge ), Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor (Lillian Marie [nee Gary] and Robert Coleman Taylor), Mr. Winder W. Laird's Family Group (the family of William Winder Laird), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt ( Edith Roosevelt ), Mr. John Nicholas Brown, with his dog Monkey or Mrs. Harold Brown, with her Bust of Mme. Recamier (1923).

literature

Web links

Commons : Eveline Adelheid von Maydell  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Elionor von Rosen: Eveline Maydell. In: Yearbook of the Baltic Germans. Volume 19, 1972, pp. 65-70.
  2. ^ Eveline von Maydell in the Estonian State Archives.
  3. ^ Eveline von Maydell , Deutscher Scherenschnittverein eV, accessed on July 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ Eveline von Maydell. A World in Black and White. March 29, 2014 to September 7, 2014, curator: Linda Lainvoo.
  5. ↑ Alice Van Leer Carrick: The Portrait Silhouette Revived . In: Country life . Doubleday, Page, Garden City, NY November 1926, pp. 41–43 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - With illustrations).
personal data
SURNAME Maydell, Eveline von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maydell, Eveline Adelheid Baroness von (full name); Frank, Eveline Adelheid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silhouette artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1962
Place of death Sintra